Hot damn. That was a really intense semester.
Now that I'm done with my work (well...let's discount the 70+ page book I'm making for philosophy class) I'm starting that whole yearly winter break digestion process. I think I would describe this semester as:
- most fruitful in terms of showable and interesting pieces.
- most diverse in kinds of content tackled.
- the one where I figured out what kinds of things I want to do in life.
It's kind of funny to think back to last year and how my ideology of design and what design should be has changed. I used to be very much a part of the school of design that believed solely in functionality and that anything superfluous must go. Who knows what happened to make me completely renege on that attitude?
I really do respect people who make designs that save lives and help people get around. I've just found that I do not have the love and subsequently, patience for this kind of work. Is it selfish of me to say that I find it much more engaging and fruitful to say something important, something that has substance and emotion?
Content has always mattered to me. I want to take content and make it matter to people. Stupid things, like the etymology of the word "flip-flop" or even serious things, like why the American educational system is having such issues. To me, information is simply amazing. I want to think that everyone could be as intensely interested in the things in this world, it just isn't fully accessible to them yet and that is a tragedy in my eyes.
Without getting too far into this can of worms, I will just say that so much knowledge is lost through human history. How much of it is willfully destroyed and forgotten really does terrify me. While it is impossible for one person to remember everything that has ever happened, the collective existence certainly can.
Well. As to more mundane things... I'll be updating both this blog and my site soon with some of the work I've done this semester. And hopefully a title...
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